Our Teaching Concept and Portfolio in the Bachelor's Programme
With the increasing digitalization of society and economy, business informatics - dealing with the design of information systems - becomes responsible to understand and profitably design increasingly complex, connected, databased and partially automated socio-technical systems.
According to our main research areas we impart understanding and competences in the main areas of the chair, especially decision support systems, system development, business and data analytics as well as digital business models and systems.
Our aspiration is to provide the students with profound theoretical and practically oriented competences. We give our best to structure all courses as practically as possible by including several practical oriented presentations and case studies within our lectures and tutorials.
On the one hand, our teaching portfolio includes courses about digital technologies and internet-based business systems as well as digital ecosystems & business models. On the other hand, we teach procedure models, mathematical models and visualization techniques for the profitable utilization of large amounts of data, especially for operational decisions and coordination tasks. Further courses teach the management of information, software development and the development of cross-company IT systems. The teaching portfolio of the Bachelor's programme is described more precisely below. In the following, a short description of our bachelor courses.
Current teaching portfolio in the Bachelor
Winter semester
Digital Systems (L/T) (forms together with the course "Operations Management" a component of the module "Digital Systems & Operations Management)
The course introduces the analysis and design of information systems in and between companies. Students will learn about relevant concepts and models for IT support of business processes, database information systems, network and Internet-based communication and its protection, as well as business systems and business models on the Internet.
System Development (L/T)
The course provides knowledge about the systematic planning and implementation of technical tasks regarding IT system development. In addition to system development models and project management techniques, the course covers the basics of information management and modeling of operational information systems (functional, organizational, data and process modeling), system development and ARIS as well as database-based web applications (dynamic HTML, relational databases and SQL) for implementing the models. The exercises are performed with ARIS on a PC and on a multi-tier application and database server infrastructure.
Summer semester
Business Analytics and Data Mining (L/T)
is an introducing course comprising business analytics/data mining with structured procedure models. Relevant methodology especially for problem formalization, data preparation, data modeling (basic methods of supervised and unsupervised learning), - evaluation and - adjustment as well as implementation is introduced and deepened in exercises using a modern statistical programming language like Python or R.
Introductory seminar Information Management (S)
The course includes in-depth insights into current topics in business informatics with a focus on data, information and operational decision and planning methods. Students work independently on a current topic of business informatics from practice or research, learn how to scientifically work and write in an autonomous fashion, and practice free presentation and discussion in front of a group.
Software Engineering and Programming (L/T)
teaches fundamental methods and techniques for the structured design and implementation (programming) of software solutions for practical problems. Python is used as the object-oriented programming language in the course-accompanying tutorials.